The proposed building at 710 Collins Street, Docklands.
Melbourne developers have been given a dressing down by the city council for dubious skyscraper designs, including a windowless room proposal that lord mayor Robert Doyle compared to ''just very small cupboards''.
Councillors took the applicants of two Collins Street buildings to task during the Future Melbourne Committee meeting, reserving particular wrath for a proposed tower in Docklands that will result in the demolition of a large chunk of a heritage-listed goods shed.
Applicant Equiset said its 180-metre-tall building at 710 Collins Street was ''iconic'' and argued heritage was separate planning.
'They’re not iconic, they’re just towers,'' says Robert Doyle. Photo: Supplied
But the lord mayor backed his planning department, which had concluded the proposal by HASSELL architects was an ''overdevelopment'' that did not respect the character of the area.
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